PCS members walk out on Angela Rayner
The Housing secretary is developing a taste for industrial action
PCS: Branches demand a Special Delegate Conference to overturn bureaucracy
As the government prepares to cut civil service jobs, a crisis in the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has
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PCS elections: Low turnout shows union activists must organise
The defeat of PCS’s cost-of-living pay strikes dominated the election.
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PCS: Vote Lloyd and Moloney, but rank and file must organise to break with Broad Leftism
By PCS activists Members of the civil servants’ union PCS will vote to elect their general secretary and assistant general
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PCS members say no to below-inflation pay ‘rise’
PCS members follow the nurses’ lead
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Civil service unions: escalate now or never
By Rebecca Anderson UNLIKE OTHER public sector workers, the government’s 2022/23 pay offer to civil servants has not been improved
PCS: Targeted strikes are not enough
Branches have called on the NEC to bring all members out in January.
PCS strike ballot: what kind of action do we need?
Civil servants are being balloted over pay, pensions and job cuts until 7 November
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Public sector pay ballots: press for co-ordination
Nurses, refuse collectors, youth workers, teachers, lecturers and civil servants are being balloted.
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Report — TUC lefts urge resistance to cost of living crisis
By Jeremy Dewar “A new deal for working people, a new social settlement for the UK” A LONDON TUC rally
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PCS Conference votes to launch campaign on jobs and pay in the Autumn
By a PCS member WITHOUT WARNING, let alone consultation, Boris Johnson has announced over 90,000 job cuts in the civil
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PCS members must organise for pay fight
The Civil Servants’ union PCS will hold a consultative ballot on pay and pensions between 14 February and 21 March.
Covid-19 and the PCS: from workers’ rights to workers’ control
In the DWP we should veto work that sanctions or penalises claimants and demand Universal Credit is paid on the first day, in advance, not six weeks in arrears. In the Home Office – end deportations and close the detention centres
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PCS: Rank and File or Broad Left?
Differences within Left Unity, the ruling faction of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), have prompted the Socialist Party to launch a faction within that faction, the Broad Left Network. At the same time, the PCS Rank and File Network is being launched. This raises the question of how best to organise in the unions – rank and file or broad left?
PCS Conference: New pay ballot requires rank and file organisation to win
We can halt the union’s decline by fighting for members’ control of disputes and strategy
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BEIS cleaners strike for the living wage
PCS strike is part of a growing movement by low paid workers fighting for a living wage
Civil Servants ballot over pay
The PCS is embarking on another pay ballot due to run from 18 March until 29 April. All civil servants deserve a decent pay rise – if the MPs can have one why can’t we?
Fight for five – civil servants launch pay campaign
By a PCS activist THE Public and Commercial Services union’s annual conference in May voted by a huge majority to
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Strikes and solidarity needed to scrap pay cap
By Jeremy Dewar TORY CHANCELLOR Philip Hammond is a modern man. He believes that driving a train is so easy